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Pulled into a rest area not expecting to see anything, I see a nice S600 and see something red out of the corner of my eye. I look over and this is there. I was blown away. Unfortunately the owner came out about 20 seconds after I started taking pictures so I didn't get as many as I wanted. The awesome owner even let me sit in it!
Today is a sad day for those who loved the comedy and acting of Robin Williams, who was found dead in his home this morning. The beloved entertainer had been suffering with depression and died of apparent asphyxiation, but there is no word yet as to the exact cause of death, although it is suspected to have been a suicide, and it seems that it is possible that he hung himself.
When I was young, I struggled with depression. The overwhelming sense of doom and failure can, indeed, take a person's will to live. Having had drug problems, too, Mr. Williams had more problems than I had, and eventually could no longer deal with it. While I know how he felt, I thank God that I had a relationship with Jesus Christ that gave me the strength to continue through the pain, and at my lowest points, to be able to apprehend a sense of destiny which it seems Mr. Williams, in the end, no longer had. What a tragic loss for both his family and the world that so enjoyed and appreciated him. How sad that he was unable to feel that.
If you struggle with depression, please get help. Sometimes that's as simple as getting on your knees before God, and letting Him guide you to the people who will care the way you need them to, because HE cares the way you can't even imagine anyone could! Surround yourself with life and death will flee from you. I wish someone could have reached out to this man.
The photo below is what I worked on. I changed it to black and white and colorized it to create the somber feeling you see here. It is fitting for the occasion.
Rest in peace, Robin. We will miss you.
Former Grand Trunk Western 4-8-4 was in danger of being scrapped when Jerry Jacobson bought it in 1993 and then restored it to operating condition. At the time it was the largest steam engine on the Ohio Central and it pulled a number of excursions being being sidelined in 2005 with a hot driving axle. It has not operated since. These Northern-type locomotive spends its time sitting in the Age of Steam Roundhouse, perhaps wondering what once was and what might be somewhere down the track.
Universities seem to have the most amazing architecture. Here a couple of students take a break outside a lecture hall. The building's columns reflect in the pond outside the hall and I like the almost Islamic architecture feel. Even a seagull was resting. I didn't have my circular polarizer with me otherwise I might have been able to get some great depths happening with the water.
This series of shots was taken late in the afternoon last Saturday, where in Victoria, Australia, it was a sunny and very warm day. Four of the dingoes at Healesville Sanctuary were sensibly resting or sleeping in the shade.
This one has just got up - he may look intensely, but really, I think his eyes show tiredness! You can see under his snout some of the garden mulch that has stuck to his fir!
Dingoes are believed to have descended from the Asiatic Wolf.
The dingo (plural dingoes) or warrigal, Canis lupus dingo, is a type of wild dog, probably descended from the Southern-East Asian Wolf (Canis Lupus Pallipes). It is commonly described as an Australian wild dog, but is not restricted to Australia, nor did it originate there. Modern dingoes are found throughout Southeast Asia, mostly in small pockets of remaining natural forest, and in mainland Australia, particularly in the north. They have features in common with both wolves and modern dogs, and are regarded as more or less unchanged descendants of an early ancestor of modern dogs. The name dingo comes from the language of the Eora Aboriginal people, who were the original inhabitants of the Sydney area.
The dingo is legendary as Australia's wild dog, though it also occurs in Southeast Asia. The Australian animals may be descendants of Asian dingoes that were introduced to the continent some 2,000 to 3,000 years ago.
These golden-orange canids may live alone (especially young males) or in packs of up to 15 animals. They roam great distances and communicate with wolf-like howls.
Dingo hunting is opportunistic. Animals hunt alone or in packs. They pursue small game such as rabbits, rodents, birds, and lizards in addition to larger prey such as kangaroos, sheep and deer. These dogs will eat fruits and plants as well. They also scavenge from humans, particularly in their Asian range.
Dingoes breed only once a year. Females typically give birth to about five pups, which are not independent until six to eight months of age. In packs, a dominant breeding female will kill the offspring of other females.
Australia is home to so many of these animals that they are generally considered cute, but pests. A famous "dingo fence" has been erected to protect grazing lands for the continent's herds of sheep. It is likely that more dingoes live in Australia today than when Europeans first arrived.
Though dingoes are numerous, their pure genetic strain is gradually being compromised. They can and do interbreed with domestic dogs to produce hybrid animals. Studies suggest that more than a third of southeastern Australia's dingoes are hybrids.
At between 10 and 24 kilograms (22-53 pounds), dingoes are a little smaller than wolves of the northern hemisphere and have a lean, athletic build. They stand between 44 and 63 cm (17-25inches) high at the shoulder, and the head-body length varies between 86 and 122 cm (34-48inches). Fur colour varies but is usually ginger: some have a reddish tinge, others are more sandy yellow, and some are even black; the underside is lighter. Alpine dingoes are found in high elevation areas of the Australian Alps, and grow a second thicker coat during late autumn for warmth which usually sheds by mid to late spring. Most dingoes have white markings on the chest, feet, and the tip of the tail; some have a blackish muzzle.
Unlike the domestic dog, dingoes breed only once a year, generally do not bark, and have erect ears.
Wild dingoes prey on a variety of animals, mostly small or medium-sized animals, but also larger herbivores if need be.
Dingoes do not generally form packs; they more often travel in pairs or small family groups. However, they are capable of forming larger packs to hunt cooperatively.
Domestication is possible only if the dingoes are taken into captivity as young pups.
Asian seafarers transported Dingos from mainland Asia, through South-East Asia to Australia and other parts of the Pacific, during their voyages over the last 5000 years. Fossil evidence suggests that Dingos arrived in Australia around 3500 - 4000 years ago, and quickly spread to all parts of the Australian mainland and offshore islands, with the exception of Tasmania.
The arrival of Dingos is often considered to have caused the extinction of Thylacines from mainland Australia. Aboriginal paintings and fossil evidence indicate that Thylacines once inhabited the entire Australian mainland but then disappeared suddenly about 3,000 years ago. As Dingos are thought to have arrived around 500 years earlier this was considered ample time for them to impact on Thylacine populations, either through competition for food or through the introduction of diseases. The fact that Thylacines survived until the 1930s in Tasmania where Dingos were absent was often put forward as further indirect evidence that they were a major cause for the disappearance of Thylacines from the mainland.
The role of Dingos in the extinction of the Thylacine has recently been questioned.
Healesville Sanctuary, Healesville, Victoria, Australia
Rest-day for me on Wednesday.
There was quite a bit on the agenda workings-wise but, as has been the case for all my days off over the last two months, sunshine was not in the frame.
Still, it wasn't raining so I went out.
First target was the re-timed 6C22 Kingmoor - Sellafield.
Normally 6.40am off KM this one, featuring the flasks from the previous day's trip to Torness, ran two hours later.
Unfortunately, even though it passed me at 10.03 it was still pretty damn dark so it's a well grainy shot.
No.37611 leads No.37218 and the flask quartet off the single line section at Parton Brows.
MOC: Rest in Pieces. Those of you with extremely good memory might remember this...
Back in 2012, I modified... well, OK, killed one of those old-fashioned mudguards, in order to be able to build this. Since then, I have modified several parts when I've encountered problems where a modified part will provide a better solution than an alternative with existing parts.
The reason I revisited this now is that I brought a print of that old picture to the annual Norwegian LUG event in April - and I wanted to have a vignette to display with it. It seemed appropriate to build the 'aftermath'...
And as I said on the MOC card at the event: He's over it now, the yellow guy.
More or less, anyway.
Docker's Rest, by Terry Bradley and Friz. Located at Hickson’s Point in Titanic Quarter
A painting to represent the strong ties that the men of Belfast’s Harland & Wolff shipyard built between each other as they walked and drank together around Belfast’s shipyard and the terraced streets that surrounded it.
The port of Belfast was the major port of Ireland in its day, an important stopping off place for sailors from across the world. The men worked hard and played hard. This piece was commissioned by Titanic Belfast to be reproduced outside their on-site bar and restaurant ‘Hicksons Point’ as a large wall mural and recreated by well known local muralist Friz.
Molly Porkshanks Friedrich.
Image shot in November 2007 in Gasworks Park, Seattle with a Canon Digital Rebel XT and then adjusted in Adobe Photoshop CS2.
Resting after playing.
(I really notice the noise in this camera on anything above ISO 200. Still, I do like how this camera shows the noise. Some cameras have uglier noise in the files. )
Leica D-Lux 4
1/25th sec
F/2.2
ISO 400
My husband and I are headed out for a little rest and relaxation this long weekend. We're spending a few days at his sister's cottage on Lake Erie. I'm looking forward to it and can't wait to read this book...One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp. I bought it a couple weeks ago and have resisted starting it...but I'll be cracking it open tomorrow afternoon. I love reading but haven't really read a book in a long time. I find it hard to sit for long periods of time...it's like I always need to be doing something. But for the next few days I'll be resting, reading, spending time with my husband and of course taking a few pictures here and there :-)
Enjoy your long weekend all you Canadians!
The Maid is the last paddle steamer built in Britain and the last in a long line of paddle steamers on the loch, dating back to 1818. In 2004, she officially became an historic ship, being placed on the UK “Designated Vessels List” which recognizes vessels of “substantial heritage merit with regional and local significance”.
Adventure kayak.......